Lot Essay
François Garnier (d.1774).
The C couronné poinçon was a tax mark employed on any alloy containing copper between March 1745 and February 1749.
François Garnier was based in the rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine during most the reign of Louis XV. Garnier trained his son Pierre, who at first executed refined Louis XV furniture and subsequently became one of the most ardent pioneers of the 'goût Grequec (P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1989, pp. 337-347).
This bureau plat bears the stamp of Edwards & Roberts, the celebrated firm of London marchand-merciers, being both dealers and manufacturers, who played such a significant role in the trade of antique furniture in England in the 19th Century. Established in 1845, by 1854 they gazetted themselves as 'Edwards and Roberts, 21 Wardour Street, Antique and Modern Cabinet-Makers and Importers of Ancient Furniture' and their business activities can be directly compared with those of Edward Holmes Baldock (d.1845), also based in Wardour Street, who imported and dealt in luxurious French furniture and works of Art (C. Wainwright, 'Edwards and Roberts and the Regency Revival', Connoisseur, June 1978, p. 95 and p. 102).
The C couronné poinçon was a tax mark employed on any alloy containing copper between March 1745 and February 1749.
François Garnier was based in the rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine during most the reign of Louis XV. Garnier trained his son Pierre, who at first executed refined Louis XV furniture and subsequently became one of the most ardent pioneers of the 'goût Grequec (P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1989, pp. 337-347).
This bureau plat bears the stamp of Edwards & Roberts, the celebrated firm of London marchand-merciers, being both dealers and manufacturers, who played such a significant role in the trade of antique furniture in England in the 19th Century. Established in 1845, by 1854 they gazetted themselves as 'Edwards and Roberts, 21 Wardour Street, Antique and Modern Cabinet-Makers and Importers of Ancient Furniture' and their business activities can be directly compared with those of Edward Holmes Baldock (d.1845), also based in Wardour Street, who imported and dealt in luxurious French furniture and works of Art (C. Wainwright, 'Edwards and Roberts and the Regency Revival', Connoisseur, June 1978, p. 95 and p. 102).